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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Marxist literary criticism"”.
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The Treatment of American Indians in Selected American Literature: A Radical Critique
… a radical perspective based, in part, on Marxist literary criticism and moral criticism, applying this approach to works of Cooper, Longfellow, Thoreau, Custer, Garland, Jackson, Sandoz, Corle, Manfred, Borland, and Momaday. I examine the following questions: What political statements …
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Raymond Williams : literature, Marxism and cultural materialism
… the official culture of liberal and conservative literary studies, Williams also wrote in opposition to what he read as the orthodoxies of Marxist thinking on literature, culture and politics. Arguing first against Marxist literary criticism as he knew it from the 1930s, he maintained an ever …
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Deconstructing the image of the African women: A study of selected works by Yvonne Vera
… the privileging of the African man in African literary works gradually led to an erasure of women‘s identities, thereby leaving them to hold peripheral positions. This has motivated African women critics to engage in linguistic and performative methodologies to restructure African women‘s …
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Dispossession, Realism and the History of Neoliberalism in Peru and Colombia (1964-2014)
… belongs to the fields of Latin American literary studies, Marxist literary criticism, and Andean studies. Throughout the dissertation, I explore profound connections between these fields to study the historical dimension in the Peruvian and Colombian novels of the second half of the …
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Romanticism in Samuel Beckett's Poetry
… are introduced by a discussion of Beckett criticism in general, and of studies of the poetry in particular. I make the case that a new appraisal of Beckett’s poetry may help the wider field of Beckett studies to see beyond certain limitations which it has struggled to overcome, stemming …
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Subjectivities in Decolonisation: The Post-Independence Film and Novel in Africa and South Asia
This thesis investigates post-independence African and South Asian film and literatures for their attention to the fraught relationship between subjectivity and historic decolonisation. Amidst social, political and economic obstacles in the 1950s–80s, a pioneering generation of novels and films …